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Letter from the Chair
Dear Colleagues,
I hope that you are well. I invite you to explore this newsletter and our department’s website at your leisure to see all of the exciting things we are working on. Our excellent faculty continue to see national recognition and we are actively producing top-quality research initiatives, such as the development of a microscope that will design better high-performance batteries, developing next-gen artificial intelligence to improve medical diagnostics and more.
The past several years has no doubt been challenging, but when we come together and collaborate, we are capable of astounding advances sure to better our world for all. I look forward to partnering with you all, my esteemed colleagues.
Warm Regards,
Badri Roysam, Ph.D.
Member, ECEDHA Board of Directors
Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen University Professor & Chair Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
University of Houston
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Hien Van Nguyen will use a $933,812 grant from the National Cancer Institute to develop a new computational framework using a unique combination of eye-gaze tracking, intention reverse engineering and reinforcement learning to decide when and how an AI system should interact with radiologists.
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Harish Krishnamoorthy has been selected by the Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine as an early-career research fellow in the Offshore Energy Safety track. His research interests include high-density power conversion for grid interface of energy systems, machine learning-based methods for improvement in quality and reliability of power electronics, advanced electronics and control for mission-critical applications.
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Xiaonan Shan and a team of researchers reported in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, their development of an operando reflection interference microscope (RIM) that provides a better understanding of how batteries work, which has significant implications for the next generation of batteries.
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ECE professors Jiming Bao and Zhu Han, are among the world’s elite researchers for their significant and broad influence of their scientific work covering nanomaterials, machine learning, electrochemical energy conversion and storage.
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Hao Huang has been named a Fellow of The National Academy of Inventors. Huang will be officially inducted along with 169 distinguished inventors at the academy’s annual meeting in June 2023. Election to the NAI is the highest professional distinction awarded solely to academic inventors.
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Top 1% Highly Cited Researchers
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Top battery experts at UH Yan Yao and Yanliang “Leonard” Liang contend that the gold-standard lithium-ion battery is about to get some competition. They are betting on humble aqueous batteries – with water-based electrolytes—generally regarded as safe, reliable and affordable.
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Jiefu Chen and Xiaonan Shan are leads on a project to find a more efficient way to convert the hydrocarbon, such as methane, to hydrogen using the microwave plasma.
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Zhifeng Ren and Jiming Bao have reported in the journal Science, that for the first time experimentally discovered that a cubic boron arsenide crystal offers high carrier mobility for both electrons and holes, suggesting a significant advance for next-generation electronics.
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UH Cullen College of Engineering
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